Greetings to all, I'm coming to the party 20 something years too late
One time taoist initiate, from Hong Kong, gravitating towards my own culture. I grew up with stories of the supernatural and was weaned on old traditions and folk lore that I didn't understand back then as a child. I even rebelled and tried to distance myself from my own culture, trying to become a westerner, but it was impossible with this Han chinese face.
I drifted from one martial art to the next, never mastering any, never satisfied with the lore taught to me, though I did pick up some good meditation techniques on the way. Now I'm a 40 something year old armchair warrior, coming nearer to my end than my begining. But it is never too late right?
I first saw the East of Krakatoa docu in the 80s, I dreamed of going to Indonesia and finding John Chang or Dynamo Jack to beg him to accept me as a student. I never did and then life got in the way and I forgot all about him. With the advent of You Tube around 2006/7 I rediscovered him, only to forget him again until 2018, when I chanced upon the book "The Majus of Java".
After reading this book and it's sequel, many things became clear to me from my childhood to do with my own culture and mythology, that I had previously dismissed and tried to distance myself from. So here I am, seakign knowledge again in 2019!
